[CF-Devel] '/command and '<text to say>

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  this will never be done on server side.  It just makes no sense.

  If your goal was to try to make it work better with old clients, you will in 
fact just break them to be completely useless.

  This is because all the pre-bound commands (eg, a=apply, s=search, up 
arrow=north, etc) are indistinguishable from the user typing that command - the 
server sees the exact same data.

  So if this was changed on the behaviour, all clients would be totally broken 
until they were updated.  And the reason some clients (old directx client) is 
out of data is because it can't be updated, so such a change wouldn't help that out.

  Now personally, since I have " (double quote) bound as the say command, I 
don't find it really hard to press that and then say whatever.

  I'd actual make the case that this is more just a user interface issue.  One 
could add a couple of text entry boxes - one like:

Say: <place for user to type in text>
Tell <place for user to type in person to tell> <another box for text>

  So if you want to say something, you just click in the say box.

  For the tell area - the person to tell box wouldn't get cleared out after the 
tell is done.  Thus, you could just keep telling stuff to the same person over 
and over again, and if you want to tell someone else, you coudl just clear it 
out at that point.


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